Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 76
c79
c79
Blue Collage
1958
Oil, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
24 x 19¾ in. (61 x 50.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R. Motherwell 58
artist’s studio number
c58-331
present owner
Collection of Brooke and Daniel
Neidich
c80
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
1999.
c80
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, May
2005, cat. no. 14.
1958
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
references
Sidney Janis Gallery exh. cat. April
1961, illus. n.p. (in exhibition); Caws
1996b, p. 129.
comments
This collage was made in Saint-Jeande-Luz, France, during the summer of
1958. At the center is a partially covered
mailing label from Bowes & Bowes,
booksellers in Cambridge, England,
addressed to Motherwell in SaintJean-de-Luz.
The Sunlit Sea
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso: “the sunlit sea” oil and
collage Robert Motherwell st-jeande-luz, france Summer 1958
present owner
Private collection, Houston
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 35.
provenance
Gloria Ross, ca. 1958; unknown owner;
private collection; Margo Leavin
Gallery, Los Angeles, 1980; Knoedler &
Company, 1981; private collection,
1983; Fayez Sarofim; private collection,
Houston
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 41, color illus.
p. 47.
group exhibitions
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1980.
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 20, color illus.
p. 111.
comments
This collage was made in Saint-Jeande-Luz during the summer of 1958.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Brooke and
Daniel Neidich, 2005
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collages
The title contains multiple visual puns:
it alludes to the vibrant yellow painted
surface, and also to the elements of
pasted paper, which refer to varied
sources of light—labels from three
brands of French candles, and packaging paper with an allover pattern of
incandescent lightbulbs.
